Hobbes' Choice, I think you are projecting your ideas onto me. You've read what I wrote, and assigned limits you think I have, or what you think I don't know.
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So its really all about you,eh?
Well it is and it isn't. Both are at work. Do you see it any differently for yourself?
Hobbes' Choice wrote:Just one more logic step and then you know it is only about you; that the assumed "bigger than yourself" thingy, is just all in your own head.
How do you know where a "being" ends?
Hobbes' Choice wrote:But that is okay. Must people don't get out of this state.
What state? You have no clue what state I'm in. It would be much more accurate to say that I try to avoid states. A state means settled and unmoving, yes?
Hobbes' Choice wrote:But when you look deep into the oneness of it all, I mean really deep, what you see is yourself looking back at you, and your inevitable mortality.
There are many things one can see. Yes, one of those things can be yourself looking back at you. And another thing might be inevitable mortality. And another thing might be nothing at all because there is no human definition for it.
Hobbes' Choice wrote:
You will have penetrated the truth.
Do you think there is some particular "truth" and that it can be "known"? I don't.
Hobbes' Choice wrote:
Passing the other side is angst ridden. But if you live through the ennui, as you shall, then you will be empowered by the truth of your meaninglessness.
I don't think we'll be "empowered" by it... we'll just be free of this (all of the human constructs). And being free of constructs is just free. It's beyond our definitions. I don't think it has a human story.
Hobbes' Choice wrote:
We'll all be dead in a 100 years, and knowing that only REALLY knowing that allows you to live your life freely.
Yes, I'm at peace with that. I treasure this experience while it is. I don't need ideas of anything that follows it. I don't need more ideas of "me". And I don't need to "know".
Hobbes' Choice wrote:
Right now you are not free to fly, you are still cluttered with the inertia of everything and every one around you.
I am both. Naturally, as long as I'm here, I am confined and tossed about by human constructs. But that's just a dance... not necessarily a bad one. I am also able to fly free of various constructs. It's not all or nothing, you know. Aren't there degrees to everything? I do not have to be totally convinced or contained by some constructs. And I think that's one of the fascinations in being here: to explore beyond the obvious intoxication. Whether... as you might say... that's all in my own head or on some universal level... who cares? It's what my experience is... and anything that feels like expansion and freedom can be preferable to contraction, density, enslavement, and fear.
Hobbes' Choice wrote:The 'flow" is what the universe wants, or what you think it wants.
I don't think the universe "wants" anything. I think it just is.
Hobbes' Choice wrote:He will take you to places you never chose.
Who/what is this "he", and why is it a "he"?
Hobbes' Choice wrote:Not until, that is, that you see yourself generating the myth of your part in a universe, when in reality you are a unit on your own box.
Perhaps the myth you are speaking of is your own. I don't think I have a myth. I don't think I'm trying to define all-that-is... or "me"... or "my part in it". I'm not claiming what it is or how it works. I don't even think there's an "it". Do you think you know?